Kristine

“Whoever has survived his own birth in a garbage can is not so easily shoved back out of this world again. (Chapter 4, Part 1)”
― Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

“But oh, she wanted to cling to something tangible, to love something living, something that one could hold against one's heart, that one could see and touch and do things for. If her poor baby hadn't died... babies didn't get bored with one, it took them a long while to grow up and find one out. And perhaps one's baby never did find one out—perhaps one would always be to it, however old and bearded it grew, somebody special, somebody different from everyone else, and, if for no other reason, precious in that one could never be repeated. (Chapter 13)”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“The castle, being medieval, might also be dilapidated, and dilapidations were surely cheap. She wouldn't in the least mind a few of them, because you didn't pay for dilapidations which were already there; on the contrary—by reducing the price your had to pay, they really paid you. (Chapter 1)”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April

“And if, during that time, instead of taking exercise he had sat writing books, he would quite naturally acquire the figure Mr Arundel had in fact acquired—the figure rather for conversation than adventure. (Chapter 19)”
― Elizabeth von Arnim, The Enchanted April